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Q. In an affected community, does small-pox make the same
differentiation as in infected households ?
A. Yes!
Q. Are those classes who are re-vaccinated, i.e., postmen, policemen,
nurses, specially protected as compared with the rest of the
community?
A. Yes!
Q. Small-pox in pre-vaccination days claimed 80 per cent, of its
victims among children, but since infantile vaccination was
inaugurated, has the mortality been very largely transferred
to the latter periods of life—when the protective power of
infant vaccination has largely worn out ?
A. Yes!
Q. Among those attacked, do those who have been vaccinated
have milder attacks and furnish fewer deaths than those who
have not been vaccinated?
A. Yes!
Q. Does vaccination, properly performed, afford greater protection
from small-poxthan vaccination insufficiently or ill-performed?
A. Yes!
The above report constitutes a tower of evidence which is quite
impregnable.
Writing to me on the subject, one of our greatest Sanitarians says:
"No eloquence of mine will make those believe in vaccination who
resolutely refuse to listen to argument. They wilfully shut their ears or
misuse their understandings, and nothing short of an epidemic of Smallpox
will cause them to recognise facts as they really are."
SCARLET FEVER.
One hundred and sixty seven cases were notified during the year.
The seasonal curve of comparative prevalence was at its minimum
in March, and maximum in October, when it assumed an epidemic